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Eunice Golden
Eunice Wiener Golden (February 18, 1927 – April 3, 2025) was an American feminist painter from New York City, known for exploring sexuality using the male nude. Her work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Westbeth Gallery, and SOHO20 Gallery. She died on April 3, 2025, at the age of 98. Early life, education, and political involvement Eunice Golden's father Samuel Wiener fled Russia after a pogrom and her mother Jean (Gurtov) Wiener was the American-born daughter of Russian immigrants. Eunice Wiener born and raised in Brooklyn. Golden studied psychology at the University of Wisconsin before leaving school to focus on her art. She rebelled against the patriarchal views of her father and sought "to demystify the male nude and sexuality," as noted by the art historian Gail Levin. Golden's work paralleled ideas that emerged in women's liberation movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1971, Golden joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Hampton, New York
East Hampton is a Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town in southeastern Suffolk County, New York United States. It is located at the eastern end of the South Shore (Long Island), South Shore of Long Island. It is the easternmost town in the state of New York. At the time of the 2020 United States census, it had a total population of 28,385. The town includes the village (New York), village of East Hampton (village), New York, East Hampton, as well as the Hamlet (New York), hamlets of Montauk, New York, Montauk, Amagansett, New York, Amagansett, Wainscott, New York, Wainscott, and Springs, New York, Springs. It also includes part of the incorporated village of Sag Harbor. East Hampton is located on a peninsula, bordered on the south by the Atlantic Ocean, to the east by Block Island Sound and to the north by Gardiners Bay, Napeague, Napeague Bay and Fort Pond Bay. To the west is western Long Island, reaching to the East River and New York City. The Town has eight state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Liberation Movement
The women's liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism. It emerged in the late 1960s and continued till the 1980s, primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, which resulted in great change (political, intellectual, cultural) throughout the world. The WLM branch of radical feminism, based in contemporary philosophy, comprised women of racially and culturally diverse backgrounds who proposed that economic, psychological, and social freedom were necessary for women to progress from being second-class citizens in their societies. Towards achieving the equality of women, the WLM questioned the cultural and legal validity of patriarchy and the practical validity of the social and sexual hierarchies used to control and limit the legal and physical independence of women in society. Women's liberationists proposed that sexism—legalized formal and informal sex-based discrimination predicated on the existence of the so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SoHo Weekly News
The ''SoHo Weekly News'' (SWN) was a weekly alternative newspaper founded by music publicist Michael Goldstein and published in New York City from 1973 to 1982. Positioned as a competitor to ''The Village Voice'', it struggled financially. The paper was purchased by DMG Media, Associated Newspaper Group in 1979 and shut down three years later when they were unable to make it profitable. The paper was known for its coverage of SoHo, Manhattan, Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood, which was just starting to become fashionable. Although the official editorial stance was anti-gentrification, some retrospectives have argued that its coverage of local culture and business actually contributed to the upward trend in property values. Coverage of emerging music acts in local venues was particularly strong, including being one of the first papers to interview the punk rock band the Ramones. Many staff at the paper had storied careers after the paper shut down. Annie Flanders founded Details ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Frank (art Critic)
Peter Solomon Frank (born 1950, New York) is an American art critic, curator, and poet who lives and works in Los Angeles. Frank is known for curating shows at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in the 1970s and 1980s. He has worked curatorially for Documenta, the Venice Biennale, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and many other national and international venues. Early life Frank was born in New York to Reuven Frank, who was an Emmy Award-winning President of NBC News and Bernice Frank, née Kaplow, a music librarian at the Tenafly Public Library. He received his B.A. and M.A. in art history from Columbia University. Work Frank contributes articles to numerous publications and has written many monographs and catalogs for one person and group exhibitions. In his early career he was somewhat associated with the Fluxus movement in New York. He has also organized many theme and survey shows for placement at institutions throughout the world, taught at colleges and univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooperative
A cooperative (also known as co-operative, coöperative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomy, autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-controlled wikt:Enterprise, enterprise". Cooperatives are democratically controlled by their members, with each member having one vote in electing the board of directors. They differ from Collective farming, collectives in that they are generally built from the bottom-up, rather than the top-down. Cooperatives may include: * Worker cooperatives: businesses owned and managed by the people who work there * Consumer cooperatives: businesses owned and managed by the people who consume goods and/or services provided by the cooperative * Producer cooperatives: businesses where producers pool their output for their common benefit ** e.g. Agricultural cooperatives * Purchasing cooperatives where members pool their purchasing power ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah Wilke
Hannah Wilke (born Arlene Hannah Butter; (March 7, 1940 – January 28, 1993) was an American painter, sculptor, photographer, video artist and performance artist. Her work is known for exploring issues of feminism, sexuality and femininity. Biography Hannah Wilke was born on March 7, 1940, in New York City to Jewish parents; her grandparents were Eastern European immigrants. She graduated from Great Neck North High School, on Long Island, in 1957. In 1962, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Science in Education from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia. She taught art in several high schools for approximately 30 years and joined the faculty of the School of Visual Arts. After her graduation the same year she taught art at two high schools. First, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania (1961-1965), between 1965 and 1970 she worked in White Plains, New York. After leaving White Plains, she joined the School of Visual Arts, in New York (1972-1991). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Semmel
Joan Semmel (born October 19, 1932) is an American feminist painter and professor emeritus in painting. She is best known for her large-scale naturalistic nude self portraits as seen from her perspective looking down. Education and political involvement Semmel was born in New York City. She began her artistic training at Cooper Union, where she studied under Nicholas Marsicano. She went on to study with Morris Kantor at the Art Students League of New York before earning a BFA from the Pratt Institute in 1963. She spent seven and a half years in Spain (1963–1970), where her work, "gradually developed from broad gestural and spatially referenced painting to compositions of a somewhat surreal figure/ground composition...(her) highly saturated brilliant color separated (her) paintings from the leading Spanish artists whose work was darker, grayer and Goyaesque." Semmel returned to New York City in 1970 and earned an MFA from the Pratt Institute in 1972. Upon returning to New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Nessim
Barbara Nessim (born 1939) is an American artist, illustrator, and educator. Early life Nessim was born in New York City in 1939. Motivated by art from a young age, she studied at the Pratt Institute in New York from 1956 to 1960. After graduating from Pratt she briefly worked in textile design while building her career as a freelance illustrator. Nessim received encouragement from her former teacher, Robert Weaver, to enter the Society of Illustrators 2nd annual competition in 1960 where she was awarded a ''Special Mention'' for a series of seven innovative monotype etchings titled, ''Man and Machine''. One of these works was also the cover of Communication Arts Magazine's 2nd issue. Nessim was immediately noticed by leading Art Directors of the day, notably Henry Wolf and Robert Benton from Esquire Magazine. Her illustration work continued to appear in magazines of the time, namely, Harpers Bazaar, Redbook, and the Ladies Home Journal, as well as " low brow" magazine title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juanita McNeely
Juanita McNeely (March 13, 1936 – October 18, 2023) was an American feminist artist known for her bold works that illustrate the female experience in her nude figurative paintings, prints, paper cut-outs, and ceramic pieces. Feminist emotional elements in her work include the portrayal of female experiences such as abortion, rape, and menstruation.Joan Semmel and April Kingsley, "Sexual Imagery in Women's Art," ''Woman's Art Journal'' 1, no. 1 (Spring–Summer 1980): 1–6. Her recurring health problems and expressive figurative compositions have prompted comparisons to Frida Kahlo.Joan Marter, "The Work of Juanita McNeely," in ''Juanita McNeely: Indomitable Spirit'' (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University, 2014: 5. According to McNeely, "we as women must continue the struggle to hold on to our rights, or let the children lead the way." Early life McNeely was born in Ferguson, Missouri, Ferguson, Missouri on March 13, 1936 to Robert and Alta McNeely. In her early years, McNeely spent ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Edelheit
Martha Nilsson Edelheit (born September 3, 1931, in New York City), also known as Martha Ross Edelheit, is an American-born artist living in Sweden. She is known for her feminist art of the 1960s and 1970s, which focuses on erotic nudes. Early life She was born September 3, 1931, in New York City. She always had a knack for creative endeavors, originally having been taught to be a musician. Edelheit's grandparents were immigrants from Romania who kept a kosher home and spoke Yiddish. She lived first in Queens and later at the age of 10 in the Bronx with her parents who were more secular in nature. She attended the High School of Music and Art with Joan Semmel. Edelheit subsequently studied at the University of Chicago from 1949 to 1951, at New York University in 1954 while concurrently studying art with Michael Loew, and at Columbia University in 1955 and 1956, where she studied art history with Meyer Schapiro. In the mid-1950s she married psychoanalyst Henry Edelheit, when h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (; 25 December 191131 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including Cult of Domesticity, domesticity and the family, Human sexuality, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the Unconscious mind, unconscious. These themes connect to events from her childhood which she considered to be a Art therapy, therapeutic process. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the abstract expressionists and her work has a lot in common with Surrealism and feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement. Life Early life Bourgeois was born on 25 December 1911 in Paris, France. She was the middle child of three born to parents Joséphine Fauriaux and Louis Bourgeois. Her parents owned a gallery that dealt primarily in antique tapestr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Bernstein
Judith Bernstein (born October 14, 1942) is a New York artist best known for her phallic drawings and paintings. Bernstein uses her art as a vehicle for her outspoken feminist and anti-war activism, provocatively drawing psychological links between the two. Her best-known work features her iconic motif of an anthropomorphized screw, which has become the basis for a number of allegories and visual puns. During the beginning of the Feminist Art Movement, Bernstein was a founding member of the all-women's cooperative A.I.R. Gallery in New York. Bernstein spent many years teaching in the School of Art+Design at SUNY Purchase College, where she iProfessor Emerita Her classes there focused on "outrageous, outscale" drawing, as well as drawing the figure. After retiring from SUNY Purchase, she experienced a rediscovery late in her career, as highlighted in her ''New York Magazine''s 2015 profile titled "Judith Bernstein, an art star at last at 72". She has addressed the topic of her re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
